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2004 SOFTBALL
COACHES
Assistant Coach Dee Dee Weiman returns for her second season on the Titans’ bench, focusing her efforts on the development of the pitching staff while also assisting Gromacki with other aspects of the program. “Some are convinced that games are won and lost in the circle.The pitchers have rapidly developed because of the addition of Dee Dee,” Gromacki said. “I am confident that the pitchers are in good hands and their contribution from the circle will add to our success.” Weiman was hired to her post prior to the 2003 season and her impact on the program was immediately felt. Under Weiman’s tutelage, the Cal State Fullerton pitching staff led the Big West Conference in six different categories including, ERA (1.35), opponent batting average (.156), strikeouts (417), strikeouts looking (156), wins (41), and fewest hits allowed (208). Titan pitching was also second in runs allowed (101) and earned runs allowed (73). Individually, pitchers Jodie Cox and Gina Oaks were named third-team All-American and were also first-team All-Big West Conference pitchers. Cox was named the Big West Conference’s Co-Pitcher of the Year, posting her first career 20-win season and finishing with 224 strikeouts to lead the league. In fact, a Titan pitcher led or co-led the league in six different pitching categories (see pg. 42 for the complete list). Later that summer, the duo would be selected to the U.S. National “Elite” Team where Cox earned MVP honors at the Canada Cup, helping the squad to a championship with a 3-0 record without allowing an earned run in 19 innings. Prior to returning to Southern California, Weiman spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Wisconsin of the Big Ten Conference, where she was in charge of coaching the Badgers’ pitching staff and also working with the catchers. She helped guide the Badgers to three straight Big Ten Tournaments and appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2001 and 2002. Weiman coached the school’s first-ever first-team All-Big Ten pitcher in Andrea Kirchberg, who owns nearly every pitching record at Wisconsin. In 2002, Weiman, head coach Karen Gallagher and assistant coach Ali Viola were named the Speedline/NFCA Division I Mideast Region Coaching Staff of the Year, sharing the honor with the Notre Dame coaching staff. As a player, Weiman was a member of the 1990 and 1992 UCLA national championship-winning squads while earning All-Pacific-10 Conference honors twice in her career and first-team All-America honors as a senior in 1994. A Honda Broderick Award nominee in 1994, Weiman finished her Bruin career with a 59-13 overall record, a 0.79 ERA, 746 career strikeouts and 16 no-hitters. Weiman’s 359 strikeouts in 1994 still stand as a single-season record. Weiman also holds the NCAA career record for strikeout ratio at 10.4 strikeouts per seven innings. She continued her playing career in the Women’s Professional Softball League, playing four seasons (1997-00) after being drafted as the 10th selection of the second round of the 1996 Amateur Draft. Weiman won the 1999 WPSL championship with the Tampa Bay Firestix and recorded the first strikeout, complete game, victory, save and shutout in team history. She was also the first-ever pitcher to throw a perfect game in WPSL history, shutting down the Carolina Diamonds on Aug. 1, 1998. Weiman was a two-time WPSL All-Star selection in 1998 and 1999, and ranks first in league history in games started (83), complete games (70), innings (640.3) and appearances (113). She ranks second in strikeouts (446) and saves (6) while ranking third in wins (46) and shutouts (10). This season, Weiman will be reunited with her catcher on the 1993 ASA Women’s Open National Championship in Gromacki, when the duo helped lead the Redding Rebels to the national title. Weiman graduated from UCLA with a bachelors degree in sociology in 1994. She has a 7-year-old son, Tyler, and resides in Fullerton.
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